{"id":5522,"date":"2026-08-14T22:17:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T22:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=5522"},"modified":"2026-08-14T22:17:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T22:17:42","slug":"instagram-logo-new-zuckerberg-ai-vergecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=5522","title":{"rendered":"Why Instagram changed its logo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Instagram\u2019s wordmark is iconic. Well, <em>was <\/em>iconic. Apparently Instagram thought it looked old, so the company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/979583\/this-is-instagrams-new-logo\">rolled out a new one this week.<\/a> It doesn\u2019t look like the old Instagram wordmark. It doesn\u2019t even look like it spells Instagram anymore. And we cannot figure out why Instagram decided to do this.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">After that, it\u2019s time for some more AI news, including a new way of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/977823\/anthropic-claude-ai-watermarks-c2pa-text-images\">watermarking<\/a>\u201d AI-generated text, Apple\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/977921\/apple-reference-image-iphone-metadata\">stamp of reality<\/a>, Spotify\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/entertainment\/977815\/spotify-ai-persona-label-recommendations\">crackdown<\/a> on AI artists (but not AI music), and some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/978982\/daddario-guitar-ai-music-suno\">chaos in the guitar industry<\/a>. Then it\u2019s off to the lightning round, with news about <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FCC\/status\/2087215733751116169\">Brendan Carr<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/978113\/chatgpt-gemini-1-billion-users\">ChatGPT<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/policy\/979339\/flock-ceo-audits-data-retention\">Flock<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/979415\/the-sub-100-phone-market-is-disappearing\">cheap phones<\/a>, and more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/podcast\/980367\/instagram-logo-new-zuckerberg-ai-vergecast\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram\u2019s wordmark is iconic. Well, was iconic. Apparently Instagram thought it looked old, so the company rolled out a new one this week. It doesn\u2019t look like the old Instagram wordmark. It doesn\u2019t even look like it spells Instagram anymore. And we cannot figure out why Instagram decided to do this. 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